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Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Discussion in 'Pellet Stoves, Pellet Fireplaces, Pellet Furnaces' started by DexterDay, Jan 16, 2014.

  1. scajjr2

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    Nice out today.
    Had to go put a new battery in my daughter's car as the sub-zero temps killed it off. Decent car batteries aren't inexpensive anymore. Something decent is $180, better is like $230. Was going to get a EverStart Maxx for $120 at WalMart then read all the reviews for the last couple years on how they die after a year, WalMart doesn't honor the 3 year replacement w/o a lot of hassle. Went to O'Reillys got one for $180.

    One nice surprise when I went food shopping this morning was an 18 pack of large eggs at Walmart dropped from $7.27 last Sun to $5.15 today. Course after the huge fire at a chicken plant last week that killed 100,000 hens it'll probably be back up next week. The article I read about the fire said they didn't expect it to affect egg prices. Really, the loss of 100,000 egg producing hens won't have any effect?o_O

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    :eek:

    Then again, I changed the oil in my truck a month ago. Oil (synthetic) and filter was over 50 bucks :doh:
     
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    Thank you - I've replied on the TG thread so any answers are easy for others to find if they need to.
     
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    Eh, 100,000 chickens is, forgive me, chicken feed. There are over 300 million egg laying chickens in the USA alone.

    Batteries aren't cheap, but at the same time are something you don't want to be cheap on unless you like being stranded and having to replace them every 3 years. In my experience, a good battery should last 7 years unless it is abused or there is an electrical issue with the vehicle.
     
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    Don't know where you saw these reviews......I had one in my Trailblazer for 6 years before selling it, and it cranked like new. Got great reviews as the best battery to get from Consumers Reports. Seen a lot of positive reviews other places. I just put one in my truck 5 months ago (and it's a BIG battery)........$148 and they install for free. Spins that starter over like a banshee.

    I'd like to read all those negative reviews.
     
  6. Earl764

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    Sometimes they have a bad run and it creates a bad set of reviews for a period of time.
     
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    Saw them yesterday on WalMart's site for the battery I was looking at. I was surprised at all the bad reviews cause I put EverStart Maxx batteries in our 2 cars 3 years ago and they've been fine. Figured supply chain, source material and labor issues for the past couple years may have contributed.

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    Have no idea on the chickens, just going by the news stories saying because of the bird flu that the number of hens is lower. No idea how fast the industry recovers from that. Never saw the stores around here having no eggs, just higher prices.

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    More heat woopie! :D

    Down to the last 2 bags, I'd say we were cutting it pretty close ey?

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    Nice to have the space for them, i'd love the area you have.

    Mine is like a surgical operation. Into the driveway, into the slot in the garage.
     
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    I feel your pain! We lived 28 years on a small lake lot. Barely had enough room for the cars out front and no back yard at all. Never got pellets delivered to often as we had to park in the street if we did. Figures now I have the room they put limits on how many tons you can get per delivery!

    Made sure the new place would have plenty of room to move. I also have about 2/3 acre behind the garage to play with(1.3 acres total). Might put up a small pole barn someday?? Need a place for my tractors and pellets!
     
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    I'm not one to normally follow chickens and eggs, but I had to go look it up since I thought for the millions of eggs used not only for breafast, but in baking, that 100,000 should be a fairly low percentage out of the whole. Previous years we've had up to 400 million egg laying hens, so the flue did wipe out a good percentage. Now mind you, it is tough to find a true number because some statistics show that they only count operations with 30,000 or more hens. But the bird flue wiped out 43 million egg laying hens according to the USDA, which is a pretty high percentage.

    The bad side to waking up so early in the morning is I have plenty of time to geek out over things that nobody asked, or really cares about - except in maybe an abstract way (such as consumer price) :D
     
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    We usually use 4 eggs a day for breakfast. Either fried or omelettes filled with a few items of what we like -- onions, peppers, mushrooms, spinach, chourizo (hot Portuguese sausage) , avocado, various cheeses. So I usually get two 18-packs a week. I have also noticed that the size of the eggs is back to normal. Last summer/fall it seemed like the large eggs were more medium sized.

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    I picked up 2(30 lbs) bags of cherry pits, 2(40 pound) bags of timothy grass and 2(50 pound) bags of corn. All free and will splash tem in with my pellets. A friend of a friend said come get em. Harmon owner that didn't like the extrie cleaning involved.

    Cherry pits burn hot! 2 40 pound bags of pellets to 1 30 pound bag of pits. Added about 20 degrees on the convection heat!
     
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    Nice.Free heat.:dex:
     
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    57 here today and muddy. Stove is idling along. Like corn, we get free eggs from the place the corn comes from. The owner of the seed farm raises chickens and always has too many eggs.
     
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    NICE!
     
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    My Englander 10-CPM was set up to burn cherry pits as one of the options on the electronics. Too bad I never saw any in my area to try out.....guess you need to live in Michigan, or somewhere near there. :confused:
     
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    I only saw pits once at TSC. Grabbed 2 to try and the heat was very good, But the ash is a gritty mess. Lots of carbon deposits IIRC.

    These also came from Michigan, I think they got them at a co-op?? I am inquiring as I like the extra heat boost they've got. Could have used these on the cold day we had! I might save one bag for a cold spell??
     
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    Such a nice day out, We figured since the kids were off work. Momma came home early and said lets get the pellets stashed! About an hour and 1/2 with the 4 of us husslin. Now its nap time! :D

    3 stacks of 60 and 1 with 20. Room for another 2 plus tons if we need it or catch a deal.

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